What We’re Reading
Robert Pollin Back to Full Employment: The Blog
The Economist: Currencies, The Weak Shall Inherit the Earth
FAO, Underwriting the Poor; A Global Fund for Social Protection
Dean Baker, Structural Unemployment in the United States
Olivier De Schutter “Underwrite the poor like we underwrote the banks” – UN experts propose Global Fund for Social Protection
What We’re Writing
Timothy Wise The Cost to Developing Countries of US Corn Ethanol Expansion
Alejandro Nadal, Sustainable Development and Maize Production in Mexico
Jeff Madrick, Our Crisis of Bad Jobs
Jeff Madrick, Why Jack Welch Knows About Changing Numbers
Jayati Ghosh, The Challenges of Urbanisation May Be Greater in Small Towns
Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth Stanton, Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency?
C.P. Chandrasekhar, The Role of the Small Retailer